Janis Joplin Quotes

It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you're loved enough, when you have enough money, and you're appreciated.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.

Every girl wants the same thing - to be accepted and loved for who she is.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

We all have the need to feel special.

I know what it's like to feel that fear and the need of affirmation and appreciation. To build confidence in yourself is the toughest thing.

You've got to love what's yours.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.

I am proud people still like me. That is what is most important in life.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.